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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 minutes ago

Blue Marble probably

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Salty Water Ball With Some Dirt Patches

[–] BeMoreCareful 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Are the aliens going to rape and enslave?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 minutes ago

Very likely

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[–] Sumocat 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Translated to English, probably “Name-of-Star” 3, as in 3rd planet from our star, same system as Star Trek. The key difference is Columbus had no idea where he was going, and aliens have to know exactly where they’re going. Can’t shoot into space and find a planet by accident.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Chances are you can find a planet by accident, it's just going to take a very long time

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

“This isn’t Mars? You’re not martians? Ah fuck you, you’re martians.”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Hmm, so they were aiming for something else, but got here instead because they had crank theories about the shape of the universe? (Columbus thought Earth was egg-shaped instead of a sphere, like everyone had correctly thought since the time of ancient Greece)

They call us something translating to "the Andromidans".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

I mean you don't have to go with the analogy fully, but yeah, that's a deep answer, I suppose.

[–] over_clox 5 points 20 hours ago

The Wet Ball of Trash

[–] AbouBenAdhem 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)
[–] random_character_a 3 points 19 hours ago

Water planet with cancerous hairless simian population.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

their new colony

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

Probably not Alienia

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

"Planet of the money-crazy hairless apes that can't relax"

Or "Klaus"...

[–] Carvex 3 points 21 hours ago

Open season on the tasty meat creatures

[–] CelloMike 1 points 19 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Probably some Italian gibberish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

A fixer-upper.